Race unlocking hairstyles, hempen sets, butt slider, customization, addressed:

[dice137]

What else did people expect, honestly?

[Gumbercules]

If we take how they went about the long hair discussion, the butt slider one might be a "maybe". He pretty much asked if ppl would be ok with texture stretching for the sake of butt sliders. That said they won't allow anything too "grandiose" though, seeing as at some point the textures would just blatantly suffer way too much.

[Rymi]

For customization what if they just unlocked options we already have for faces. For example the au ra with their horns attached to certain faces? Since creating new stuff isn't happening anytime soon. :<

[TaranTatsuuchi]

For customization what if they just unlocked options we already have for faces. For example the au ra with their horns attached to certain faces? Since creating new stuff isn't happening anytime soon. :<

While I want this as much as others, for all races since the Au Ra are just the most recognized, it's nothing as simple as copying and pasting...

[JunseiKei]

Are minor cosmetic updates that will generally be covered up by gear anyway really more important than numerous new areas, reworked actions and UIs across all pre-existing classes, and presumably many more content updates to be revealed over the next few months?

The short? No, but even I was looking forward to the possibility of at least making ear/horn/fur patterns/ eye shape based on which face option you picked and let them be selected individually. You know, things already in the game, just separate them. Things you see on a normal basis on everyone.

[Valaska]

Lol and come on, are the majority of people covering these customizations up? No, not with glamors. The majority, vast majority, of helmets etc are awful looking and just not fun. Most people have their characters face exposed, it makes you more recognizable and a presence in the game, and you begin to relate more to the character you built. Customization is HUGELY important in MMO's, its why Black Desert Online despite being a pretty shallow and terrible game is so darn popular, people are drawn to that customization.

FFXIV needs to step up the customization game, it needs to do abit of updates to the character mesh as well. They look pretty decent but they could really take it up another level with current technology, especially when 64 bit should be the only supported OS type for gaming from this point onwards.

But yeah butt slider, chest, shoulders, we need more deformation on the model.

[347SPECTRE]

Holy thread necromancy Batman

jokes aside, yeah they really should step up character customization a bit.

[Anzaman]

They plan on making SOME hairstyles race unlocked, and SOME of them remaining unique to that respective race.

Still waiting for this to happen, hopefully soon.

[Lukha]

As small as it is, I'd really like to see the black-tipped ears separated from specific hairstyles and rather made a selectable option for Miqo'te. I think they're really cute, but don't care for most of the styles the feature is attached to.

As for butts, I'd be fine with a little texture stretching, I think? Something has to be done; I showed a friend who doesn't play XIV (I'll get him eventually!) some butt closeups the other day and even he thought the current state of our backsides is creepily unatural, and even makes some standing postures weird and impossible...

[RLofOBFL]

Customization pls.